10 Trinity Evening Prayer

The First
Lesson
Micah 4:9-5:1
9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee?
is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the
city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even
to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall
redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say,
Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand
they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into
the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine
horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat
in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto
the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath
laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with
a rod upon the cheek.

1st Lesson Questions -
Do I believe that God will deliver me in the end, no matter what I have to endure now? RESOLVE.

The Second
Lesson
Romans 5
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein
we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.3 And
not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that
tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by
the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be
saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them
that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come.
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God,
and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath
abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for
the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is
of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all
men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the
free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so
by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

2nd Lesson Questions - Does faith and righteousness reign in my life enough for me to be a recipient of God's grace? Can I testify in my life that tribulations "worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience hope" and all the rest? (Vs. 3,4) RESOLVE.